Guest Artist Workshop: Materials and Methods with Jide Aje

Join Detroit-based painter Jide Aje for an afternoon of creative exploration and mixed-media abstract artwork. Visitors will have the chance to talk with Aje about his work and his studio practice, and explore shape, color, and form by creating their own collage.. 
  
Aje earned his degree from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife in Nigeria. His work mines and mixes a wide variety of iconography both modern and contemporary. The ancient symbols of the Akan, Dogon, and Yoruba peoples in their traditional forms, as well as the artist’s contemporary spin on them, serve as a jumping-off point for his paintings.